ly been granted but not by any doctor or hospital but by god. If a patient like my grandfather is diagnosed by a doctor “terminally ill,” then why not let them have the right to end their suffering for themselves and for the family. The longer my grandfather stayed alive, the harder and the more agonizing it was on everybody. To see someone suffer causes you to suffer as well. Therefore if a person is on their deathbed and wishes to end their existence before matters become complicated, they should legally have the right to. Opposing viewpoints need to start thinking about the person in the hospital bed, who is unable to walk, talk, feed, think for themselves, or even breathe for themselves. They also need to think from the perspective of the family member who has to watch their own flesh and blood suffer. As William Shakespeare and Hamlet once said: O! that this too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew; Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! WORKS CITEDCorr, Charles A. Death and Dying Life and Living. California: Wadsworth, 2000.“Euthanasia and Physician Assissted Suicide.” http://www.religioustolerance.org/euthanas.htm Heifetz, Milton D. and Charles Mangel. The Right to Die. Toronto: Longman Canada Limited, 1975. Levine, Carol. “Is Physician-Assisted Suicide Ethical?” Guilford: The Dushkin Publishing Group Inc.,1991. Moroney, Catherine. "Three Choices for Death." America 21 November 1992. Russell, Ruth. Freedom to Die. New York: Human Sciences Press, 1977. ...
